SIL IPA Unicode (beta)

The SIL Unicode IPA beta font was a Unicode-encoded font for Linux®, Macintosh® or Windows® systems. The Doulos SIL font has a more extensive character inventory, and replaces the IPA Unicode font beta font.

The Nastaliq Navees font was developed for Apple's QuickDraw GX technology, part of Mac OS versions 7.x and 8. This system is now obsolete. It would be nice to update the font for current technology (Mac OS X, Unicode, AAT), but we have not had the time and resources to work on this; therefore, it will not work with today's software.

Any chance this font (or at leaset the glyphs composing it and some documentation about has this font was designed) got released under a free software lisence? so that free comunity can pick it and, hopfully, port it to modern font technologies like AAT and graphite. I'd personally like to work on such font.

To download fonts, click on the blue link for the font name, e.g. "Charis SIL 5.000". That will take you to the product page where you can read about the font's features and requirements, which packages are available for different platforms or different needs, etc. and then download the package that's most appropriate to your purposes.

There are OpenType features opbd, lfbd, rtbd, defined by Adobe which I think are intended for use with optical justification. Do any of these fonts have those features? Does graphite enable optical margins?

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